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  • This house supports the rise of investors prioritising ESG as an investment criteria.

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    ESG is a set of considerations, including environmental issues (E), social issues (S), and corporate governance (G) that can be considered in the valuation of, and investment in, firms. Each component of ESG represent the three main areas that companies globally are ideally expected to report and disclose. Rating agencies like Thomson Reuters typically use both firm data and external data to score firms’ ESG performance.

    Manila Pro-Am 2024: Pre-UADC · Round 2 · 2024-03-23

  • This house believes that countries with high rare earth mineral deposits (e.g., lithium, cobalt) should nationalize its extraction and production

    Infoslide

    Rare earth minerals have diverse uses. Lithium and cobalt, for instance, can be used in making batteries, as in smartphones or electric vehicles (EVs).

    Manila Pro-Am 2024: Pre-UADC · Grand Final · 2024-03-23

  • In the aftermath of regional tragedies affecting large numbers of people (e.g., chemical spills), This house supports governments placing the victims in parens patriae.

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    For the purposes of this debate, a government placing a group of victims in parens patriae means that the government takes the responsibility and exclusive right to sue the perpetrators of crimes on behalf of victims. That is, victims are prohibited from suing individually, or withdrawing from the government’s lawsuit while the lawsuit is ongoing.

    UCL IV 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-03-23

  • ECCQ el movimiento ambientalista debería adoptar una estrategia de activismo fragmentado.

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    Para efectos de este debate, el activismo fragmentado es una estrategia de lobby y activismo que consiste en fragmentar los movimientos en distintas facciones alineadas a distintas ideologías. Tiene como objetivo apelar a los esquemas ideológicos de distintos grupos o partidos.</p><p>Por ejemplo, una facción ambientalista podría apelar a sectores nacionalistas, enfatizando el papel de los ecosistemas en el orgullo nacional mientras que otra facción independiente podría apelar a sectores socialistas, enfatizando los impactos del cambio climático en la clase obrera.

    Torneo Rosarista de Debate VIII 2024 - Categoría Universidades · Ronda 5 · 2024-03-22

  • This house supports Stratospheric Aerosol Injections (SAIs)

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    Stratospheric Aerosol Injections (SAIs) are a method of geoengineering of releasing particles into the stratosphere to cool the Earth's surface by reflecting sunlight. Advocates liken its effectiveness to natural volcanic occurrences, and it is scientifically proven to work. However, we have yet to develop planes which can fly at the altitude necessary to disperse SAIs, and we predict that it will be quite expensive to deploy (tens of billions per degree celsius cooler the planet becomes). Concerns linger about their potential to disrupt weather patterns, and once initiated, halting SAIs could lead to abrupt and severe temperature spikes, necessitating a commitment to continuous deployment.

    EDS Spring High School Tournament 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-03-20

  • This house, as Australia, W loosen enforcement against illegal fishing.

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    As a result of Chinese fishers disrespecting Indoneisan fishing zones, Indonesian fishers have migrated into other nations' waters, and the Australian and Indonesian governments have agreed upon a zone within Australian waters where Indonesian fishers are allowed to fish. By far, the most lucrative form of fishing in this region is shark finning. However, since the Australian government imposed heavy restrictions and policing on shark finning, lots of Indonesian fishers have been left without a job, and a substantial amount of the remaining ones have turned to people-smuggling for people seeking asylum in Australia.

    EDS Spring High School Tournament 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-03-20

  • This House Regrets the commercialisation of space

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    The commercialisation of space refers to the commercial use of satellites, as well as recent developments such as space exploration programmes, commercialisation of launch services, and the commercialisation of access to space as well. Aside from the advent of commercialised initiatives, traditionally space initiatives are supported or regulated by the state/state-related organisations.

    Hong Kong Junior Schools Debating Championship 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-03-16

  • This House Prefers the Kyoto protocol mechanism to the Paris Agreement

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    The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change produced two major CO2 emission reduction mechanisms: the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 created a top-down system that assigned binding emission targets to industrialised nations only. The Paris Agreement of 2015, on the other hand, created a bottom-up approach where all countries, including less developed nations, set their own goals.

    Hong Kong Junior Schools Debating Championship 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-03-16

  • Anette should accept the sponsorship.

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    Anette is a young and high potential tennis player. Becoming a good tennis player at an international level is her dream. Anette has a comparatively large social media following as she is a very active climate activist. Anette is offered financial sponsorship by a large oil company, which would help her quickly advance up her tennis career ladder and become one of the world's top athletes, and without this sponsor, her tennis career would stay at the current average professional athlete level.

    Poska Impro 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-03-09

  • This house, as the environmental movement, W dissociate themselves with the degrowth movement.

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    <p>The degrowth movement advocates for a reduction in global production and consumption as the only way to ensure the future of humanity and preservation of the planet.</p>

    Oxford Schools' Final Day 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-03-09

  • This house supports the creation of an international court to prosecute "crimes against the earth."

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    International courts are neutral bodies not affiliated with any single country that adjudicates disputes between nations or international affairs. Cases are judged by a panel of judges appointed from different nations. Examples of international courts include, but are not limited to, the International Criminal Court (ICC), International Court of Justice (ICJ), European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Crimes against the Earth are acts that directly or indirectly cause harm to the environment, for instance mass deforestation, destruction of ecosystems, etc.

    Nanke Invitational Forensics Tournament 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-03-09